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Okay, you've finally written your own World Wide Web homepage (if you
haven't, just pretend that you have). Now how do you tell everyone that
your page exists? You can visit all of the search engines like Yahoo and
Alta Vista and enter your information by hand, but that could take hundreds
of hours. You could pay some company to add your information to all of the
search engines, but who can afford to do that?
Well, kids, today we are going to drive our little bus of Internet happiness "across the pond" to visit a Web service that just may be able to help you get a little more traffic on those wonderful Web pages of yours!
The World Wide Web Broadcaster is a totally *FREE* service that enables you to submit your Web page addresses to over 235 search engines at once. All you have to do is visit the Broadcaster's homepage at http://www.broadcaster.co.uk/ and fill in all of the blanks. There are a couple of things that you need to remember, though:
With that said, let's take a look at how you can use the Broadcaster to actually submit the address of one of your Web pages to over 235 search engines at once. First, point your Web browser to: http://www.broadcaster.co.uk/
Remember, this page may take a little while to load, so please be patient. Once this page has loaded, click on the "Start" button over on the right-hand side of the page.
This will take you to a page that shows you the Broadcaster's "User Guidance and Terms of Use." Make sure that you read this (it is pretty much just a repeat of those three points that I made a moment ago). Do notice that at the bottom of the page is a check box that says
We want to keep our users up to date with future developments.
If you do NOT wish to be kept up-to-date please untick this box.
If you do not want to receive e-mail updates from the folks at the
Broadcaster, make sure that you uncheck the check box. Then, click on the
"I Agree" button at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
The rest of the process is pretty easy. There are 8 pages that you have to fill out in order to submit your Web page address. The first page asks you for your e-mail address, your name, the title of your Web page, your page's address. You are also asked if your page has any "adult content."
Notice that at the bottom of this page are a bunch of words (like "E-Mail," "Maintainer," "Title," etc.) followed by red Xs. Ignore this for now. I'll show you what all this means in a moment.
Once you have completed the first page, click on the "Next" button at the bottom right-hand corner of the page.
The next page that appears (page 2 of 8) asks you for some more information about yourself, including your address and phone number. Fortunately, you don't have to give this information if you don't want to. Instead, just type "NA" (without the quotes, and note that there is no slash between the letters N and A) in the fields that you would rather not divulge.
Also take a look at those words and Xs that we saw at the bottom of the first page. Notice how some of the red Xs have changed to green check marks? As you fill in the blanks on each of the pages, the Broadcaster keeps track by changing the red Xs to green check marks. It's just a way to help you ensure that you fill in all of the blanks. :)
The next four pages are pretty much self-explanatory. Just fill in the blanks. :)
The 7th page gives you a preview of the information that you have submitted on the previous 6 pages. DOUBLE CHECK EVERYTHING because once you approve this information, there is no way for you to correct it. If you need to change something, click on the "Back" button located on the right-hand side of the page (it's in the *middle* of the page). If everything looks good, click on the "Broadcast" button, which is right under the "Back" button.
That's it! The folks at the broadcaster will confirm your submission by e-mail, which may take a few days. In the interim, if you want to submit another URL, you can go back to the Broadcaster's main homepage by clicking either the words "Click Here" or on the "Start" button.
Neat, huh?
--------------------------------- TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORDS OF THE DAY --------------------------------- THAR (adverb,noun,pronoun). The opposite of HAIR. FER (preposition). Something that grows on a cat (among other things) ITCH (contraction). Alternative spelling of ITSA. YER (pronoun). Something that isn't MAIN. WAIF (noun). A female married person. Usage: "Thars a phone call fer yew. Itch yer waif." (Special thanks goes to Richard Omer for today's wurds.) YOU CAN FIND ALL OF THE OLD SOUTHERN WORDS OF THE DAY ON THE SOUTHERN WORD HOMEPAGE AT http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/word.html
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